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The Best of Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Book/The Second Jungle Book/Kim
Rudyard Kipling Collection:
Best Short Stories 9781853261794
Kim 9781853260995
Man Who Would be King & Other Stories 9781853262098
Wordsworth Classics new Best of series enables you to buy a collection of the key works of the finest authors. Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist born in Bombay during the 19th Century. He is best known for his works of fiction, particularly “The Jungle Book” and its sequel but “Kim” and “Just So Stories” also brought him great literary acclaim. Some of his short stories also worthy of special mention, include: “The Man Who Would Be King”, “Puck of Pook's Hill” and “Rewards and Fairies”.
Best Short Stories 9781853261794
Kim 9781853260995
Man Who Would be King & Other Stories 9781853262098
Wordsworth Classics new Best of series enables you to buy a collection of the key works of the finest authors. Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist born in Bombay during the 19th Century. He is best known for his works of fiction, particularly “The Jungle Book” and its sequel but “Kim” and “Just So Stories” also brought him great literary acclaim. Some of his short stories also worthy of special mention, include: “The Man Who Would Be King”, “Puck of Pook's Hill” and “Rewards and Fairies”.
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Rudyard Kipling
7,190 books3,681 followersJoseph Rudyard Kipling was a journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.
Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including The Man Who Would Be King (1888). His poems include Mandalay (1890), Gunga Din (1890), The Gods of the Copybook Headings (1919), The White Man's Burden (1899), and If— (1910). He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are classics of children's literature; and one critic described his work as exhibiting "a versatile and luminous narrative gift".
Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Henry James said: "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius (as distinct from fine intelligence) that I have ever known." In 1907, at the age of 41, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and its youngest recipient to date. He was also sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, both of which he declined.
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907 "in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterize the creations of this world-famous author."
Kipling kept writing until the early 1930s, but at a slower pace and with much less success than before. On the night of 12 January 1936, Kipling suffered a haemorrhage in his small intestine. He underwent surgery, but died less than a week later on 18 January 1936 at the age of 70 of a perforated duodenal ulcer. Kipling's death had in fact previously been incorrectly announced in a magazine, to which he wrote, "I've just read that I am dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers."
Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including The Man Who Would Be King (1888). His poems include Mandalay (1890), Gunga Din (1890), The Gods of the Copybook Headings (1919), The White Man's Burden (1899), and If— (1910). He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are classics of children's literature; and one critic described his work as exhibiting "a versatile and luminous narrative gift".
Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Henry James said: "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius (as distinct from fine intelligence) that I have ever known." In 1907, at the age of 41, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and its youngest recipient to date. He was also sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, both of which he declined.
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907 "in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterize the creations of this world-famous author."
Kipling kept writing until the early 1930s, but at a slower pace and with much less success than before. On the night of 12 January 1936, Kipling suffered a haemorrhage in his small intestine. He underwent surgery, but died less than a week later on 18 January 1936 at the age of 70 of a perforated duodenal ulcer. Kipling's death had in fact previously been incorrectly announced in a magazine, to which he wrote, "I've just read that I am dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers."
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September 4, 2022
Immensely enjoyable. Highly recommended.
October 6, 2017
Love his Jungle Book and animal stories. Not as much a fan of his people stories.
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March 14, 2016Jungle Book finished May 2, 2011.
Jungle Book 2 finished May 28, 2011.
Kim finished September 16, 2011. (Audio and book together. Audio read by Ralph Cosham. Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Duration: 10 hours, 17 minutes)
Jungle Books re-read on May 3, 2013.
Jungle Book 2 finished May 28, 2011.
Kim finished September 16, 2011. (Audio and book together. Audio read by Ralph Cosham. Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Duration: 10 hours, 17 minutes)
Jungle Books re-read on May 3, 2013.
Displaying 1 - 3 of 3 reviews